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ABI breakage and package naming - 11 days ago
Planète Béranger has raised the ABI issue surrounding Fedora and RHEL’s recent upgrade to Firefox 3. In short, RHEL 5.2 ships with Firefox updated to the new xulrunner-based Firefox 3, but its Eclipse and libswt3-gtk2 is still at 3.2, which... Topics: Fedora
Midori : NT/Vista :: NT : Win95 - 17 days ago
Looks like Microsoft is preparing for their next great leap forward in OS design. Just as Windows NT’s kernel is a clean room without any DOS baggage, Midori is based on the Singularity research kernel, that is written in .NET and utilizes a new... Topics: FLOSS, Microsoft
Python tail-call optimization, done right - 35 days ago
It occured to me this morning to revisit the issue of tail-call-optmization using function decorators in Python. Last time I checked, the working trick involves stack inspection (works only in CPython) and throwing an exception whenever a tail call is... Topics: Uncategorized
Wide Finder: take 2 - 40 days ago
Tim Bray’s revised Wide Finder project [ongoing.org] has been ongoing for a few weeks now, and I’ve finally took the time to design and prototype an implementation.WhatThe goal is to evaluate the performance of middle-of-the-road, not... Topics: FLOSS
Patents: to settle or not to settle - 45 days ago
@Béranger:The comparison between Red Hat’s patent settlement and the MS-Novell covenant is instructive, but the two settlements are not exactly identical.The downstream impact of both certainly only protect the respective companies’... Topics: Legal
